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Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
Is responsible for Federal programs that promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities.
American Association for Single People
AASP engages in education and advocacy for America's 82 million unmarried and single adults, including solo singles, single parents, domestic partners, roommates, and unmarried families. We are seeking fairness for unmarried employees, consumers, taxpayers, and voters.
American Coalition for Fathers and Children
We dedicate ourselves and our efforts to the creation of a family law system, legislative system, and public awareness which promotes equal rights for ALL parties affected by divorce, and the breakup of a family or establishment of paternity.
Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF)
The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.
Association for Children for the Enforcement of Support
ACES is a non-profit child support organization. We are parents whose children are entitled to support working to improve child support enforcement, educating ourselves about legal rights and remedies and promoting public awareness about the plight of affected children.
ATHOMEDAD.COM
The At-Home Dad Network is a loose-knit grassroots organization for primary care dads who want to start up or join any activity to help connect at-home dads. Since 1994 we have connected and promoted home-based fathers across the country and around the world. It started in with a small group of dads who wanted to be listed in the the At-Home Dad Newsletter and grew into a network of thousands of dads who started dozens of At-Home Dad Network playgroups, e-mail list servs, media contacts, conducted research, and the At-Home Dad Convention.
Better Baby Care Campaign
Today, a record number of parents with very young children are in the workforce. More than half the infants and toddlers in the United States spend time in child care each week. The Better Baby Care Campaign is a nationwide effort to improve the quality of care for children under age three.
Co-Abode: Single Mothers House Sharing
Co-abode is a nationwide non-profit service designed to improve the lives of single moms in every way possible. It was founded by single moms, for single moms and our mission is to give women parenting children alone a hand-up, not a hand-out.
Council on Contemporary Families (CCF)
A nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the national conversation about what contemporary families need and how these needs can best be met.
The CRADLE
(also known as the Child Rights Advisory Documentation and Legal Centre) [KENYA] The vision of the CRADLE is a just society that provides a protective and nurturing CRADLE to the child.
Custody Preparation for Moms
A support site provided by those that have been through the process.
dads & daughters
DADs provides tools to strengthen father-daughter relationships and transform pervasive cultural messages that value daughters more for how they look than who they are.
Gay-Civil-Unions.com
Supporting Legal & Social Sanction of Lesbian & Gay Relationships & Families
Equidad de Género, Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, A.C. (Gender Equity: Citizenship, Labor and Family)
Spanish and English: Mexico. Mainstreaming gender equity, leadership and advocacy training for women, and gender budget analysis.
Family Care International
Dedicated to improving women's sexual and reproductive health and rights in developing countries, with a special emphasis on making pregnancy and childbirth safer.
Families and Work Institute
A non-profit center for research that provides data to inform decision-making on the changing workplace, changing family and changing community.
family law courts.com
Family law judges exist to create business. Family Law Courts should not be confused with government, but known simply as the office address of those whose businesses it is to generate more business, including the recent growth spurt of divorce industry occupations.
Federación de Asociaciones de Mujeres Separadas y Divorciadas
[España]
Gender, Work & Family--American University, Washington College of Law
Dedicated to decreasing the economic vulnerability of parents and children by restructuring workplaces around the values people hold in family life. To achieve this goal, the program seeks to change societal, governmental, and workplace norms and practices to better enable parents and other family caregivers to simultaneously pursue economic stability and family care goals.
Girl Scouts of the United States of America
Committed to helping today's girls become tomorrow's leaders. For 90 years, the Girl Scout program has delivered quality experiences for girls locally, nationally, and internationally.
Insanity House
Our vision is to empower our strong, creative population, and to unite the voice of single parent families in the United States. Through a unified voice and an empowered community, we will effectively challenge current legislation and change political policy that directly affects our family system.
Leave My Child Alone!:
A Family Privacy Campaign to Protect Our High School Students From Unwanted Military Recruiting. Buried deep within the No Child Left Behind Act is a provision that requires public high schools to hand over private student information to military recruiters.
LIFETIME: Low-Income Families' Empowerment Through Education
Our mission is to empower low-income parents to determine, pursue and achieve their goals for education, employment and economic security. Our goal is to help low-income parents enroll in, continue and successfully complete higher education and training — a long-term investment in poor families with lasting results.
Mainstreet Moms
is an "education-in-action" project committed to progress on issues crucial to our children's futures.
Minnesota Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention and Parenting (MOAPPP)
A non-profit organization whose mission is to strengthen policies and programs related to adolescent pregnancy prevention, adolescent pregnancy care and adolescent parenting in Minnesota.
Mocha Moms Online
A site for stay at home mothers of color. Mocha Moms is a support group for stay at home mothers of color who have chosen not to work full-time outside of the home in order to devote more time to their families.
Mommy Too! Magazine
Giving a resounding Voice to Mothers of Color
Mothers Are Women/Mères ET Femmes
We are mothers who have chosen to be the primary care givers of our children and believe that the ability to exercise this choice without the threat of social or economic penalties is part of the struggle for equality. We believe that the work of caring for our children, for our families (however we define them) and our communities must be recognized, respected and valued. We maintain that until the unpaid work done by women in the home and community is understood and valued as work there will be no real equality for women.
MOTHERS: Mothers Ought to Have Equal Rights
is a grassroots, diverse network of mothers, fathers, grandparents and other adults who are family caregivers. We are coming together to promote the economic, social and political worth and importance of family child and dependent care. We are bringing together a coalition of individuals and organizations to improve the economic security of those who do caring work.
Mothers & More: The Network for Sequencing Women
A non-profit organization that cares for the caregiver. We provide opportunities for mothers to connect with one another in ways that assist them in developing their unique identities as women and help them move more confidently through the transitions that affect their family, work and life.
Mothers Movement Online Home
Resources for mothers and others who think about social change.
National 4-H Council
Provides grants, establishes programs/initiatives, designs and publishes curriculum and reference materials, and creates linkages fostering innovation and shared learning to advance the 4-H youth development movement, building a world in which youth and adults learn, grow, and work together as catalysts for positive change. Council partners with 4-H at all levels—national, state and local.
National Association for Family Child Care
A non-profit organization dedicated to promoting quality child care by strengthening the profession of family child care.
National Association of Mothers' Center (NAMC)
The vision of the NAMC is to enable members to be effective in using their individual and collective knowledge and experience as catalysts for personal and societal changes that benefit mothers and families.
National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI)
NFI’s mission is to improve the well being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible, and committed fathers.
National African-American Homeschoolers Alliance
As active homeschoolers, we want other home school families to be well-informed, well-prepared and well-connected in order to provide the best home education for African-American children. NAAHA was created just for these reasons.
National Housing Conference
A coalition of housing leaders from the private and public sectors that believes that every American, regardless of income, should have the opportunity to live in a suitable neighborhood.
National Child Care Information Center--Administration for Children and Families
A project of the Child Care Bureau, is a national resource that links information and people to complement, enhance, and promote the child care delivery system, working to ensure that all children and families have access to high-quality comprehensive services.
National Marriage Project--Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
The mission of the National Marriage Project is to strengthen the institution of marriage by providing research and analysis that informs public policy, educates the American public, and focuses attention on a problem of enormous scope and consequence. Simply stated, the problem is this: marriage is declining as an institution for childbearing and child rearing, with devastating consequences for millions of children.
National Partnership for Women & Families
A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses public education and advocacy to promote fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family.
Our Children Our Future
A national child advocacy non-profit corporation that promotes awareness of our nation family law court system.
Proud Dads
a national program that provides a forum of inspiration, learning, and support for expectant dads and dads of young children.
Sanctuary for Families
Dedicated to meeting the needs of victims of domestic violence, while advocating for societal change and raising public awareness to end violence against all women and their children. Central to Sanctuary's work with individual clients and its efforts to advocate and educate is the belief that this is a crime that must not be tolerated.
Save the Children
A nonprofit child-assistance organization to make lasting positive change in the lives of children in need. Today we work in 19 states across the United States as well as in 47 other countries in the developing world to help children and families improve their health, education and economic opportunities. We also mobilize rapid life-support assistance for children and families caught in the tragedies of natural and man-made disasters.
Single Mothers By Choice
Whether you are just beginning to consider the possibility of becoming a single mother, are trying to adopt or conceive, or are already a mother, we can provide you with information, resources, and a unique support network of your peers.
Slowlane.com
the searchable online reference, resource and network for Stay At Home Dads (SAHD) and their families.
small justice: Little justice in America's Family Courts
What is going on in many of America's Family Courts is nothing short of a national scandal. There is important research which shows that loving and fit protective parents are losing custody of their children to fathers with histories of domestic violence and sometimes even child abuse. Small Justice was awarded "Best Social Documentary" at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
Take Back Your Time
is a major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment.
United for Justice...
"To provide strength, power, and a unified voice for women and children caught in crisis in America’s courts."
Welfare Information Network (WIN)
A project of The Finance Project, WIN is a clearinghouse for information, policy analysis and technical assistance related to welfare, workforce development, and other human and community services.
Welfare-to-Work--U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Provides guidance regarding hiring authorities available for use in the efforts of Executive Departments and Agencies to provide employment opportunities for welfare recipients.
Welfare Law Center
Works with and on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income support -- public funding provided on the basis of need -- is available whenever and to the extent necessary to meet basic needs and foster healthy human and family development.
Welfare Made a Difference: National Campaign
Seeks to reshape public perception about and public policy relating to welfare by documenting and disseminating the stories of the diverse group of people who have received welfare and struggled out of poverty with the help of welfare.
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Last Update: December 20, 2005 by Ariel Jensen-Vargas
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